universe: is time goint forwards or backwards?

Question

big crunch to big bang to time forward to time backwards? help???

Answer 1

Correct me if I am wrong.
But I think you might be asking about Steven Hawking's(?) suggestion that a big bang might have been a big crunch but with time reversed from our perspective.
There has since been suggestions that there might be two universes (in a sense) overlapping and that our big bang is there big crunch and visa versa.
In some ways this seems like an extension to special relativity where an event and it's cause can have varying periods of time between depending on the frame of refference of the observer. All those little games of the mind imagining that something is going at light speed usually means that an event happens at the same time as a cause. While people in a more ''normal' frame see a delay.

It follows that the big bang would be a cause of the big crunch. So if someone travelled at light speed and accelerated (in other words continued to dilate time more and more, you can't go faster than light) then they would end up in a frame of refference that could make bang and crunch similtaeneous. They would effectively become the same thing. Then this seems simpler to understand than normal time as all time becomes one event. So our sense of time is the result of our frame of refference.

The direction of time is purely relative.
I am going to have a rest now; I think I blew a fuse.

Did I blow it now or tomorrow? AhhhhhG!

Answer 2

Well let's see. Time is made by man. Time is actually slower in space than here on Earth and that fact was actually proven. There is really no such thing as time in space but to answer your first question time goes forward in space by our standards. If it goes backward then either there is something wrong with the mechanics on the watch or we are going backwards into time which wouldn't make sense because if that were to happen then the mars mission wouldn't take this long. As for the big bang theory again is another theory that would never be proven as an actually fact. The big bang theory is just something sceintist came up with because in their mind everything has a beginning. The truth of the matter is that The Big Bang never happened. The universe was always there and there are 44 universes back to back.

Answer 3

when you read anything on relativity you will hear a term called space time. this refers to the inseparability and relationship between the three dimensions of space (think the x,y, and z coordinate plane) and time. the whole theory of relativity is that both space ( distance) and time are relative to the observer. now, with Einsteins special theory of relativity we can see that both space and time is dependent on how fast the observed object is moving in relation to the observer. but an observed objects time will always be "moving" in the same direction, it can only be slowed, or technically stopped once the observed object hits light speed. with Einsteins general theory of relativity we find that mass also plays into this, but still time is only slowed by the affects and is never actually reversed. the only way for this to happen would be to move faster than the speed of light, which is impossible for any known particle.

As for the big bang, big crunch scenario, the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate and will not be slowed down by gravitational pull. there for the universe will eventual succumb to what is referred to as heat death, where all the available energy has been converted into an unusable form such as heat.

Answer 4

heh time doesn't travel in a direction, but theres and action, then a reaction, so in that way it has order. so you could say that is time moveing forward, although time just exists everywhere at once. and could it ever move backwards? probably not i havn't seen anything that would suggest this.

and since reading the universe was expanding i'm guess there won't be a big crunch. but hey, people once believed the earth was flat.

Answer 5

There is only the present. Time appears to exist because the present that existed a moment ago is different to the present that exists now. In reality, the present is all there is, and it keeps re-creating itself in every instant which gives the illusion that time is moving somewhere. I think time moves in a spiralling pattern, like a corkscrew, repeating things over and over, yet moving upwards in an evolutionary fashion. Humanity is heading towards perfection.

Answer 6

the vast bang thought isn't yet shown to be reasons why we are right here, despite if i've got self assurance this is quite in all risk. No, the universe has no strategies, and so can't think of or sense. I agree that this is a fallacy. in basic terms with the aid of fact we live in the universe, doesnt advise we are "area" of it. We weren't constantly right here to start with. we are only travellers, we are no longer area of the universe.

Answer 7

Still forward - in fact it will always be forward till the time we manage to conquer the next dimension of time.

Answer 8

time itself is static, it is a dimension, not an object. things can move backwards in time or forwards in time. but time itself is not mobile.

Answer 9

Does winding your watch backwards count?

There you go, a _____ answer for a _____ question.

Answer 10

forwards. duh